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...France gathering sensitive industrial data, turned himself in to French authorities. The agent, Matei Haiducu, 45, told officials of the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (the French secret service) that he had been ordered by Ceauşescu to kill Tanase and a second dissident writer, Paul Goma, 45. If the DST would protect his cover long enough for him to bring family members out of Rumania, Haiducu promised, he would tell all about his checkered past...
With the help of his intended victims, the Rumanian double agent set out to deceive Bucharest with a bit of cloak, if not dagger. For the benefit of secret-police comrades who had been sent to watch him, Haiducu followed through on an elaborate plan to kill Goma. During a cocktail party he used a specially made fountain pen to squirt a toxic chemical into the writer's drink. But a French agent " accidentally" jostled Goma's arm, spilling the poison. Since Haiducu could not fail on his second mission, the attack on Tanase had to be even...
...Goma said he holds the United States partially responsible for continuing human rights violations in his native country, because Rumania received preferential trade conditions from President Carter...
After French intellectuals, including Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Eugene Ionesco, called for his release, Goma was freed from prison last November and forced to emigrate to France...
...Goma said that even though he worked to "reform and not reconstruct Rumania we in the movement were arrested, humiliated, drugged, tortured and finally thrown out into the street...